Porphyria's Lover

Shakespeare expresses his love for his mistress through metaphors, typical of sonnets about love. However, those comparisons describe his poor mistress in unpleasant ways, in distinct to typical love sonnets. Poets usually describe the beauty of their lover through embellished comparisons and through the usage of romantic language. Shakespeare pokes fun at the fact that these comparisons are too

The loss of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult experience that humans ever come up against. The poem Porphyria’s Lover, written by Robert Browning, adds a sense of irony to this. At the most superficial layer, the speaker’s in both Porphyria’s Lover and Neutral Tones, written by Thomas hardy, both deal with loss. The tones in Neutral Tones seem to be indifferent, or Neutral. Porphyria’s Lover speaker ends up murdering his beloved at the end the poem. While this isn’t the case with the speaker in Neutral Tones, the two speakers are much more similar than we might think. The speaker in Neutral Tones doesn’t outright murder his lover, but there is a considerable amount of disdain and contempt towards his supposed lover. The speaker in Porphyria’s Lover is quite obviously a disturbed man, the sinister nature of the speaker in Neutral Tones, however, is not as clear. Delving further into this idea, I will also discuss other obscure parallels throughout the two poems.

Chaucer maintain that the love triangle is represented by Duke Theseus and John the Carpenter by being the elderly authority figure because they try to control Emily and Alison,Palamon and Arcite by Knight’s tale, Absolon, and Nicholas by the Miller’s tale represent the suitors, they had love at first sight. Chaucer’s purpose for writing this text is to compare two characters that have almost the same roles in the stories but with other names and becoming a different type of story.This text is significant to our understanding of love triangle because each one compares how love should be and these stories have some similarities with now.

This composition contains several characteristics of a traditional love poem. But, if you analyze deeper into the poem, you may discover that “To Coy His Mistress” is more of a dramatic monologue. The speaker does all of the talking, which stamps the writing as a monologue. The rhetorician is conversing with his mistress, which defines the lyric as dramatic. Although, as the reader, you may identify with

none puts by / The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)' He acts like

What is power? Power itself is the ability or capacity to direct or influence the behavior of other or the course of events. It can have many forms such as the power of love, jealousy, political and so on. This has been illustrated in the poem ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and the play ‘Othello’.

Comparing and Contrasting the Theme of power and control between Porphyrias Lover, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and My Last Duchess

look at but he feels as if the Duchess takes him for granted and she

There is a similar theme running through both of the poems, in which both mistresses are refusing to partake in sexual intercourse with both of the poets. The way in which both poets present their argument is quite

Nevertheless, it is the only poem on the list containing dramatic irony. The title alone is misleading, as the poem is not about Porphyria’s lover, rather her murderer. The speaker is completely unaware that he has done something wrong, proclaiming in line 42, after strangling her, “I am quite sure she felt no pain.” He believes he made her happy, and that her love is his forever, whereas the readers know that he is insane and that he has just murdered this woman. There is a sort of detached madness in his belief that he has won her ultimate

Although Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" was written some time after "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", both contain many similarities. Most evident is that both are carpe diem poems that exhort the reader. One similarity between the two poems is the theme of exaggeration to convince the beloved. The hyperbole in Marlowe's poem being "And a thousand fragrant posies" and "But thirty thousand to the rest" in Marvell's. Both of these lines illogically exaggerate amounts to show how much the beloved means to the reader in an attempt to convince them to act. Marvell's approach in exhorting is to convince the beloved that time and eventually death is inevitable. The speaker's statement, "But at my back I always hear, Time's winged chariot hurrying

The title of the poem “My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun” suggests that the speaker is not in love with his ‘mistress’. However, this is not the case. Shakespeare uses figurative language by using criticizing hyperboles to mock the traditional love sonnet. Thus, showing not only that the ideal woman is not always a ‘goddess’, but mocking the way others write about love. Shakespeare proves that love can be written about and accomplished without the artificial and exuberant. The speaker’s tone is ironic, sarcastic, and comical turning the traditional conceit around using satire. The traditional iambic pentameter rhyming scheme of the sonnet makes the diction fall into place as relaxed, truthful, and with elegance in the easy flowing verse. In turn, making this sonnet one of parody and real love.

Poetry in Elizabethan time was based on courtly love conventions which included conceits and complements. Themes such as the unattainability of the lady, sleeplessness, constancy in love, cruelty of the beloved, renunciation of love, fine passion of the lover versus icy emotions of the beloved, praise of the beloved’s beauty and eternalizing her as being subject of the poem; these all are

The title ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ may indicate to the reader the idea that the lover would be the only active article in the poem, especially if it was written by a male during those times. However, at the beginning of the poem Porphyria is immediately given the active role, she’s the one who “glided in” wanting to visit him “for love of her…/ through wind and rain”, she also “shut the out cold and storm”. This gives Porphyria a masculine physical ability as she has the power to “shut…out” something as sinewy as a storm, which goes against the female stereotype.

A Comparison of the Dramatic Monologues of Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning